CHINA: 'China backs economic power with political muscle in Africa', Financial Times, 12 July 2017

China has 750 peacekeepers in South Sudan and more than 2,000 in Africa as a whole, including in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Liberia - a bigger deployment than any other permanent member of the UN Security Council. That Beijing has been willing to put lives at risk so far afield shows how its economic ambitions have morphed into political involvement, straining a decades-old strategy of non-interference in foreign affairs. 'China backs economic power with political muscle in Africa', Financial Times, 12 July 2017